Bustle



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BUSTLE.

Patnted Aug. .9, 1887.

- UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

HULDAH PAYNE, OF MOUNT VERNON, OHIO.

BUSTLE.

$PBCIPICATIQ1T forming part of Letters Patent No, 368,0,00, dated August 9, 1887.

Application filed February 10, 1867. Serial No. 227,175.

zen of the United States, residing at Mount Vernon, in the county of Knox and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Bustles and Supports Therefor for Ladies Wear; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full,'clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention is an improvement in bustles and supports for the same for ladies wear; and my said invention consists, first, of a bustle over which the skirts and dress of the wearer are draped, which bustle is composed, preferably,of six hoops secured in an outwardly-bent position upon a cloth, cotton, or similar piece of fabric of proper shape, and a belt attached to the top edge thereof, which passes around the waist of the wearer and retains the bustle in place; and, second, in a support for said bustle, which consists of a narrow strip of spring metal bent into a peculiar shape, with loops to receive the hoops of the hustle, and secured one upon each side of the back 'upon the corsets, whereby the bustle is sustained or held in its proper distended position, the parts all being constructed and arranged substantially as and for the purposes as will be hereinafter more fully described, and pointed out in the claims.

The object of this invention is to so construct a hustle and its support that, while possessing the necessary qualifications as to dimensions and contour, the same will be light, comfortable, and durable, and at the same time the clothes will be carried gradually from the waist upward and outward, and thereby relieve the spine of the wearer of the weight and heat of said clothes and bustle.

The objection to many bustlesnow in use is that they permit the clothes to slide and drag down around the Waist, and owing to their shape the weight and heat of the wearers clothes are brought almost altogether upon the spine, or the weight of the clothes upon the bustle will cause a distention of the clothes at the hips, thus destroying the desired uniformity of outline in the drapery and arrangement of ladies skirts and dresses.

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To overcome these objections is therefore the object of my invention, in doing which I proceed as follows, reference now being bad to the accompanyingdrawings for a better understanding of the details of construction and arrangement of a bustle'and support therefor when constructed according to my invention, and in which drawings- Figure l'represents an elevation of a figure supplied with a bustle constructed according to my invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical transverse section through the bustle and corsets adjacent to one of the supports for the bustle. Fig. 3 is a view in front elevation of the bustle, showing the position of the same when upon the wcarer. Fig. 4 is a detached view of one of the supports for the bustle,showing the construction of the same. of a portion of a pair of corsets, showing the location of the bustle supports attached to said corsets. Fig. 6 is a modification in the form of bustle for young girls wear.

A is the bustle, which may be of the usual or any suitable material, and of Various sizes to accommodate large or small persons, as shown in Figs. 1 and 6, at the top edge of which isa belt, a, and connecting the lower corners is attached a draw-string, a. Forming a part of this bustle A, either woven in the meshes thereof, similar to the bones or steels of corsets, or attached thereto in any desired manner, are six hoops, which maybe of rattan or other suitable substance, two of which hoops, 1 2, are arranged at the top, which extend the bustle outward from the body,and three others, 3 at 5, at the bottom edge, which curve upward and give the proper outline to the bustle, and a sixth, 6, which extends from the top edge at each side of the bustle and passes downward and around the same, uniting the three lower hoops and forming a brace to the entire structure. To preserve the outward bulge or curvature to the bustle, the draw-string a is provided, upon regulating the tension of which the degree of curvature of the bustle is attained, and, in addition to this, the ends of the bustle are kept close and neat upon the hips. This completes the construction of the bustle, except that a stay, a which may be a thin strip of metal, may be employed to preserve the relative positions of the hoops from each other,

Fig. 5 is a rear view i as shown in Fig. 1. Now, to retain said bustle in position upon the body, the support B B, Fig. 4, is provided, two of which supportstwo are to be usedare secured, one upon each side of the back of the corsets, as shown in Fig. 5, and this support 13 is composed preferably of a single piece or strip of thin spring inctal bent into substantially the form shown, whereby an elastic support is sccured for the bustle-that is to say, the bustle support or spring consist of a vertical or straight portion or back, B, which is secured to the back of the corsets ofthe wearer by suitable fastenings, as at f, and an outwardlycnrved front portion, 13, which is formed at its top into a small loop, I), a large bulge or curvature, b, at the center, and a loop, b, at the bottom, whereby an elastic support having the desired outline is provided for the bustle proper. The two top hoops, 1 2, of the bustle rest and are retained in their relative position by the top loop, I), while the central portion of the bustle is supported upon the large loop b,and the two lower hoops, 45, are supported by the lower loop, if, of the support, and thus the proper distention'of the bustle proper is accomplished, as well as the desired projection of the same from the body.

Diagonally across the support 13 B extends a brace, b, to prevent the too great compression of the frame; but this brace may bcomitted, as also the lower loop, I); but the form shown is preferred.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new therein, is as follows, viz:

1. As a new article of manufacture, the bus tle-spring herein described, formed of a strip of narrow spring metal, with straight back B and outwardly-curved front B, having a loop, b, at the top, a large central curvature, b, and aloop, If, at the bottom, and diagonal brace I), as and for the purposes specified.

2. The combination of the bustle spring formed of a strip of narrow spring metal, with straight back B and outwardly-curvedfront B, having a loop, I), at the top, alarge central curvature, b, and a loop, I)", at the bottom, and diagonal brace b, and the bustle A, having the hoops 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6, which rest upon the curvature of the spring, as described, for the purposes specified.

HULDAH PAYNE.

In presence of- HENRY T. PORTER, EMMA Dora. 

